Article February 26, 1949 Issue

Study of the true record of creation reveals basis of Christian healing

THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS

JOSEPHINE DEMAS

The writer will never forget that when Christian Science was first brought to her attention she was advised to read carefully the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible and the chapter entitled "Genesis" in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

All Bible students are familiar with the first chapter of the Scriptures. It was, however, Mrs. Eddy who revealed that which to students of Christian Science is obvious today, namely, that there could not actually be two creations, but one only, the spiritual. Whereas the first record describes the spiritual creation, the one given in the second chapter, beginning with verse six, describes the material. One explains the true, divine creation, the other expounds the false, material view. One speaks of life, immortality, bliss; the other of doubt, despondency, mortality. Mrs. Eddy made it clear that the first chapter had to be rightly understood.

A Christian Science practitioner was led at one time, when a patient came to him for relief from his many problems, to refer him to the record of God's creation wherein it is said (Gen. 1:31), "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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